Something happened to my computer and I thought you all would want to know to protect yourselves.
First, I don’t have Internet in my apartment.
Secondly I don’t have any security like Norton antivirus. Just can’t afford that, but it seemed to be pointless if my computer wasn’t hooked up to the Internet, you know?
So I have been buying movies for a dollar here and a dollar there to run in the computer DVD with no problems.
So one day last week I went to play a movie and it kept returning to the main menu and refused to play normally.
I dusted the DVD and my computer player and tried to play it again. Still refused to play.
After fiddling around with the computer…even restoring it to another time to see if that would help, I still couldn’t get it to play properly.
Then an error message popped up briefly. It said that I could not play the DVD in my region of the world.
What?? So I checked my region. It finally made sense to why my clock was suddenly off by an hour….someone had hacked my computer to change it to….wait for it…Israel, Afghanistan, etc.
Let me repeat that my computer was not connected to the Internet and hasn’t been for many months!!
They accessed it without the internet. Wi-Fi is not even turned on at all!
Immediately after I figured it out, I get a vision of rump grabbing his crotch and flipping me the “bird”
Um-hmmm.
So I wanted to warn people that your computer can be accessed even if the wifi is turned off.